Extract color themes from an image: The original Kuler web app included the ability to extract a theme from an image. That feature is back. Just click the camera icon in the upper right corner of the Create page and choose a photofrom your library.

A color wheel in two sizes: When we updated the interface many of our long-term users thought we’d made the color wheel too large. Now, with a click, the wheel can be larger when you need it and smaller when you don’t.

Reduced borders around individual colors in a theme: Now you can see more of each color and the play and interaction between them.

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2013/07/adobe-kuler-gets-enhancements-beta.html/feed5Demo: Theories and Harmonies of Colorhttp://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2013/06/demo-theories-and-harmonies-of-color.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2013/06/demo-theories-and-harmonies-of-color.html#commentsTue, 04 Jun 2013 16:05:52 +0000https://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/?p=9347Given all the interest in the new Adobe Kuler, you might enjoy this talk from Stéphane Baril, an Adobe systems engineer and a graphic novel colorist. In this talk he covers:

How to understand and effectively use a color wheel in your design process

How to use Live Color and Recolor Artwork in Illustrator, both for color exploration and graphic production

The new Kuler iPhone app allows you to capture inspiring color themes anytime, using the iPhone camera. You can then sync those color themes to the Kuler website, which allows you to create and edit color themes and browse thousands of themes created by other users. All the themes you create with Kuler will be accessible in Adobe Illustrator CC and Ideas.

Explore the Kuler global community with Community Pulse, a big picture view of color usage. This is a beta feature, using data visualization (screenshot) to show the relative popularity of colors across a sampling of countries, time periods, and tags.

To check it out,

Sign in with your Adobe ID to play around with it

Mouse over the histogram to see the hues on the color wheel

Try the granularity slider to see more/less color detail

Use the comparison icon (two circles) to compare/contrast

If you have questions, check out Kuler Help. And don’t forget to check out the Kuler panel in Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and InDesign CS4 (see Window->Extensions->Kuler). Here’s a couple of screenshots, plus a video demo. [Via]

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/01/kuler_adds_community_pulse.html/feed3New AIR-based kuler desktop talks to the Suitehttp://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/06/new_air_based_kuler_desktop_talks_to_the_s.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/06/new_air_based_kuler_desktop_talks_to_the_s.html#commentsFri, 27 Jun 2008 10:00:58 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/jnackdev/2008/06/new-air-based-kuler-desktop-talks-to-the-suite.htmlA couple of weeks ago I mentioned SwitchBoard, a Flex library that lets Adobe AIR desktop apps communicate with Creative Suite applications. Now there’s a new version of the AIR-based kuler desktop app that can send color swatches to Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Here’s an annotated screenshot. To take it for a spin, first download SwitchBoard, then install kuler desktop (linked from the right-hand nav area of kuler.adobe.com). [Update: Here’s the direct link.]
]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/06/new_air_based_kuler_desktop_talks_to_the_s.html/feed9kuler does Flickrhttp://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/06/kuler_does_flickr.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/06/kuler_does_flickr.html#commentsThu, 05 Jun 2008 06:35:10 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/jnackdev/2008/06/kuler-does-flickr.htmlAdobe kuler (the rich Internet application for color exploration and sharing, in case you’ve been chilling under a rock) now features some cool integration with Flickr, creating color harmonies from images. To try it, click the "Create" button at left, then choose "From an Image." Next to the button that lets you upload your own shots, you’ll see a Flickr button that lets you browse and search images that you & others have shared. (Here’s a screenshot.) Foxy.

Theme details now includes a More Info view, where you can choose your avatar and find the theme’s direct link (for blog links, or to email or IM, etc.)

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/06/kuler_does_flickr.html/feed6Adobe kuler RIA adds new capabilitieshttp://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/03/adobe_kuler_ria_adds_new_capabilities.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/03/adobe_kuler_ria_adds_new_capabilities.html#commentsTue, 18 Mar 2008 16:10:28 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/jnackdev/2008/03/adobe-kuler-ria-adds-new-capabilities.htmlA new version of kuler, Adobe’s popular rich Internet application for color exploration and sharing, has just launched. New features:

Use color extraction to quickly and automatically generate a color theme from any uploaded photo or other image. Explore different moods, such as bright or muted, to see different colors, or drag the markers to select colors. [Hit "Create" over in the left-hand navigation, then select "From an Image" at upper-left.]

Endless favorites: Now save as many themes as you like, and browse them in your Mykuler area

Browse by Random (randomly selected) themes, in addition to Highest Rated, Newest, and Most Popular

Enjoy! [Via Sami Iwata]

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/03/adobe_kuler_ria_adds_new_capabilities.html/feed2New AIR-powered Adobe kuler desktophttp://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/02/new_air_powered_adobe_kuler_desktop.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/02/new_air_powered_adobe_kuler_desktop.html#commentsThu, 28 Feb 2008 17:05:05 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/jnackdev/2008/02/new-air-powered-adobe-kuler-desktop.htmlThe crew behind Adobe’s kuler color harmony RIA has released a new version of the desktop color feed browser (screenshot). You can check it out by installing Adobe AIR, then downloading the app. New features include:

Browse color themes from the kuler website while offline (up to 100 themes cached per feed)

Drag and drop themes onto your own desktop as transparent "tear offs," which can be scaled and viewed over any application

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/02/new_air_powered_adobe_kuler_desktop.html/feed8Mondrianum brings kuler to Photoshophttp://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/01/mondrianum_brings_kuler_to_photoshop.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/01/mondrianum_brings_kuler_to_photoshop.html#commentsTue, 22 Jan 2008 06:59:40 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/jnackdev/2008/01/mondrianum-brings-kuler-to-photoshop.htmlJoining a long list of apps integrated with Adobe’s kuler color harmony site, Photoshop & other Mac apps now get in on the game thanks to Lithoglyph’s CocoaKuler Mondrianum*. The tool gives the Apple color picker the ability to browse kuler’s color harmony feeds, displaying the results in a slick Cover Flow view; here’s a screenshot. To access the picker from within Photoshop, go into preferences and select the Apple (rather than Adobe) color picker. Mucho groovio! [Via Lydia Varmazis]

*The name is a bit of a misnomer [name now updated], as Photoshop is Carbon-based (as are Final Cut Pro, iTunes, Office, etc.).

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/01/mondrianum_brings_kuler_to_photoshop.html/feed3kuler RIA comes to Dreamweaverhttp://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/01/kuler_ria_comes_to_dreamweaver.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/01/kuler_ria_comes_to_dreamweaver.html#commentsSat, 12 Jan 2008 17:05:58 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/jnackdev/2008/01/kuler-ria-comes-to-dreamweaver.htmlOn the heels of integrations with Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, Dashboard, and even Visio, Adobe’s kuler hosted app/color community is now integrated with Dreamweaver, courtesy of the good folks at WebAssist. The panel is a free download from their site.

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/01/kuler_ria_comes_to_dreamweaver.html/feed6Feedback, please: kuler in Photoshop?http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/09/feedback_please_kuler_in_photoshop.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/09/feedback_please_kuler_in_photoshop.html#commentsThu, 20 Sep 2007 21:59:46 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/jnackdev/2007/09/feedback-please-kuler-in-photoshop.htmlEvery time I’ve demonstrated Illustrator CS3’s excellent Live Color feature, the first question I hear is predictable: "Great, but when can I have that in Photoshop? [Or in Flash, or InDesign, or…]" Selecting harmonious colors is a necessary part of just about every design discipline.

Adobe’s kuler online application offers a subset of Live Color in a Web-hosted, Flash-powered environment. It offers powerful tools for creating color harmonies, plus tools for saving color sets & sharing those with others. As noted recently, feeds of these colors can be suckedintootherapps.

I’ve made no secret of the fact that I want to make it possible to extend Photoshop (and all Adobe apps, for that matter) by dropping in Flash-based palettes/panels. So, here’s a thought: what if we gave Photoshop (and maybe other Suite apps) the ability to use kuler to create and modify color harmonies, and to upload/download color sets to share with others?

Here’s a really simple mockup I created to show how it might work. You’d be able to use the color wheel to create color sets based on rules (Analogous, Complementary, etc.). Clicking on the resulting colors would let you paint with them in Photoshop, and/or save them as color swatches. You’d also be able to view, search, and use harmonies created by others & shared via kuler.

What do you think? I created a two-question survey to gauge your response. Comments are also welcome. [Update: The survey is open again. I didn’t realize that Survey Monkey had a 100-response limit on their free account. Clever, clever…]

Thanks,
J.

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/09/feedback_please_kuler_in_photoshop.html/feed31kuler + screensaver mashuphttp://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/09/kuler_screensaver_mashup.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/09/kuler_screensaver_mashup.html#commentsTue, 18 Sep 2007 23:19:56 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/jnackdev/2007/09/kuler-screensaver-mashup.htmlAnd the hits keep on coming… File this one under "Eine kleine Bildschirmschoner": a German-speaking developer has created a simple but attractive Mac screensaver (same page auto-translated) that sucks in a feed of popular harmonies on Adobe kuler. Gut! [Via]

Elsewhere in the world of cool screensavers, groundbreaking Flash coder Yugo Nakamura has created Kaze to Desktop, a Windows "screensaver which moves according to the current wind (=kaze) conditions of your city." Check out the video to see some super-smooth action. (The scattered piles of Windows chrome remind me of the "crash board" Mordy Golding spotted on a client visit.)

]]>http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/09/kuler_screensaver_mashup.html/feed3Adobe kuler mashed-up with Visio, morehttp://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/09/adobe_kuler_mashed_up_with_visio_more.html
Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:13:14 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/jnackdev/2007/09/adobe-kuler-mashed-up-with-visio-more.htmlAs you may know, kuler is Adobe’s rich Internet app (RIA) for creating & sharing color harmonies. About a month ago the kuler team unveiled an API that enables other applications to suck in feeds of the most popular, most recent, and highest rated harmonies found on the site.

In other kuler news, PM Sami Iwata reports that they’re running a “theme drive” to collect autumn-inspired themes. She writes,

kuler members can submit themes around the autumn season and also “vote” for
themes by rating and downloading them. At the end of the drive, the
kuler team will select a few of the highest rated and most popular
autumn themes to appear on a kuler t-shirt. If your theme is selected,
you will get 6 kuler t-shirts with your theme on it.

Hustle up, though: the theme drive runs from now until this Friday at 5:00 PDT. More details are here.

]]>Flash gets kuler: RIA in a panelhttp://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/06/flash_gets_kuler_ria_in_a_panel.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/06/flash_gets_kuler_ria_in_a_panel.html#commentsSat, 09 Jun 2007 13:23:19 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/jnackdev/2007/06/flash-gets-kuler-ria-in-a-panel.htmlAh, I love how all this is shaping up: After debuting on the web, and followed by appearances in Dashboard and Apollo, Adobe’s kuler rich internet app is now available as a panel inside Flash CS3. Thanks to the efforts of the crew at Pixelfumes, you can now view & search feeds of color harmonies generated using the online tool, then use them inside Flash. I made a quick little demo video to show the panel in action. Great work, guys!

This is a great example of how opening a door to online community can enrich the desktop experience. If you know of other cool, usefully connected desktop apps (via Flash panels or any other method), please share ’em. It’s very handy to have these on hand as we plan the future.